Summer woke up slowly to sunlight pouring in her window. She stretched, or tried to stretch anyway, since there was a large, furry lump taking up more than the cat’s share of the bed, glanced at the clock, and shot upright.<\/p>\n
Saturday. No more school, for either of them. Her namesake season — time to go to the beach.<\/p>\n
She scrabbled her phone off the bedside table and hastily texted Isaac.<\/p>\n
[text to: okami] sun is shining time for fun! I’ll pick you up in an hour?<\/p>\n
It would hardly take her fifteen minutes to drive over to Derek’s and pick him up, which gave her forty-five minutes to pack and shower and persuade Helios into his carry-case. She bounced out of bed, feeling more excited that she had in a long while, and rummaged through the top of her closet for a duffel bag. Another, much smaller bag slid down from the top shelf, and she caught it before it hit her in the head.<\/p>\n
It turned out to be her camera. Not the little pocket point-and-shoot kind of camera, but the full-featured DSLR she’d gotten with her high school graduation money. She turned it over in her hands for a minute, thinking. She’d discovered Isaac was into art, but she was pretty sure he didn’t have a nice camera.<\/p>\n
She would pack it, and see if he’d like to try it out while they were at the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer woke up slowly to sunlight pouring in her window. She stretched, or tried to stretch anyway, since there was a large, furry lump taking up more than the cat’s share of the bed, glanced at the clock, and shot upright. Saturday. No more school, for either of them. Her namesake season — time to … Continue reading summer by the sea<\/span>